sandy

The word “sandy” has 2 syllables: san-dy

It's pronounced as /ˈsændi/


What is synonym and antonym for sandy?

In the thesaurus, “sandy” has 25 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sandy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sandy

  • acervulus
  • ammophilous
  • arenaceous
  • arenicolous
  • ash-blond
  • ash-blonde
  • blond
  • blonde
  • blondish
  • fair
  • flaxen
  • gold
  • golden
  • granular
  • gritty
  • light
  • ocherous
  • ochreous
  • sabulous
  • straw
  • strawberry blond
  • strawberry blonde
  • tawny
  • towheaded
  • white

Antonyms for sandy

  • black
  • black-a-vised
  • brown
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • dark
  • ebony
  • olive
  • raven
  • swart
  • swarthy

Meanings of sandy

  • adjective
    1. Covered with sand.
    2. Sprinkled with sand.
    3. Containing sand.
    4. Like sand, especially in texture.
    5. Having the colour of sand.

Example Sentences

  • The children played on the sandy beach, building castles and collecting seashells.
  • Her hair was a light sandy color, with golden highlights that shimmered in the sun.
  • The sandy path wound through the dunes, leading us toward the ocean.
  • After the hike, their shoes were filled with sandy dust from the dry trail.
  • We spent the afternoon walking along the sandy shore, watching the waves roll in.

On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sandy, such as: acervulus, ammophilous, arenaceous, arenicolous, ash-blond, ash-blonde, black.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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coarsely

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abrasive
  • abusive
  • animallike
  • artlessly
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • barbarously
  • bargain-basement
  • barnyard
  • bawdy
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • blue
  • bluntly
  • boorish
  • boorishly
  • brazenly
  • broad
  • broken
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • bumpy
  • burred
  • cacophonous
  • cawing
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheesy
  • choked
  • churlish
  • cloddish
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • coarse-grained
  • common
  • contemptuously
  • counterfeit
  • countrified
  • countryfied
  • cracked
  • crappy
  • crass
  • crassly
  • croaking
  • croaky
  • crude
  • crudely
  • curtly
  • cut-rate
  • debasing
  • depraved
  • dirty
  • discordant
  • discourteously
  • disgusting
  • disrespectfully
  • dissonant
  • distasteful
  • earthy
  • el cheapo
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fake
  • filthy
  • flashy
  • foul
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • graceless
  • grained
  • grainy
  • granular
  • granulated
  • grating
  • gravel
  • gravelly
  • grinding
  • gritty
  • gross
  • growling
  • growly
  • gruff
  • gutter
  • guttural
  • hard-core
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hoarse
  • husky
  • ill-bred
  • illiberal
  • immodest
  • imprudently
  • impure
  • inconsiderate
  • incult
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indecorously
  • indelicate
  • indifferent
  • inelegant
  • inexact
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • inharmonious
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insolently
  • irregular
  • jagged
  • jarring
  • junky
  • kibbled
  • kinky
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knobbly
  • knobby
  • knurled
  • knurly
  • lackluster
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • lopsided
  • louche
  • loudly
  • lousy
  • loutish
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lowbred
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumpish
  • lumpy
  • mannerless
  • mealy
  • mediocre
  • meretricious
  • miserable
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nonuniform
  • nubbly
  • nubby
  • oafish
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • offensive
  • ostentatious
  • pebbly
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pitted
  • pocked
  • poor
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • provincial
  • racy
  • raffish
  • ragged
  • rasping
  • raspy
  • raucous
  • raunchy
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • ribald
  • rocky
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rough-hewn
  • roughened
  • roughly
  • roughneck
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rudely
  • rugged
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • rusty
  • rutted
  • rutty
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sandpapery
  • sandy
  • sassily
  • scatological
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scraggly
  • scraggy
  • scraping
  • scratching
  • scratchy
  • screeching
  • scurrilous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • sham
  • sharply
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shoddy
  • showy
  • sleazy
  • smutty
  • snootily
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • splashy
  • squawking
  • stag
  • stoney
  • stony
  • strained
  • strangled
  • strident
  • suggestive
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • tacky
  • tactlessly
  • tasteless
  • tawdry
  • terrible
  • thoughtless
  • throaty
  • trashy
  • trumpery
  • ultracheap
  • unabashedly
  • unacceptable
  • unaligned
  • unbalanced
  • unbecoming
  • uncivilized
  • uncivilly
  • uncouth
  • uncouthly
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undesirable
  • undulating
  • undulatory
  • uneven
  • unfiltered
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungraciously
  • unmannered
  • unmannerly
  • unmelodious
  • unmusical
  • unpleasant
  • unpolished
  • unprintable
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wanton
  • wavy
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched

earthlike

  • clayey
  • dusty
  • earthen
  • earthy
  • loamy
  • muddy
  • sandy
  • silty
  • terrestrial

earthy

  • bawdy
  • bottom-line
  • clayey
  • coarse
  • commonsensical
  • crude
  • cynical
  • disillusioned
  • distrustful
  • down
  • down and dirty
  • down home
  • down-to-earth
  • dull
  • dusty
  • earthlike
  • easygoing
  • folksy
  • funky
  • grounded
  • hard
  • hard-boiled
  • hard-edged
  • hardheaded
  • home folk
  • homely
  • homey
  • idealless
  • indelicate
  • levelheaded
  • loamy
  • logical
  • lowbred
  • lusty
  • matter-of-fact
  • misanthropic
  • mistrustful
  • muddy
  • mundane
  • natural
  • no-nonsense
  • pessimistic
  • philistine
  • practical
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • rational
  • realistic
  • reasonable
  • ribald
  • robust
  • rough
  • sandy
  • sane
  • sensible
  • silty
  • simple
  • skeptical
  • sober
  • sobersided
  • sound
  • suspicious
  • tough-minded
  • unidealistic
  • uninhibited
  • unrefined
  • unromantic
  • unsentimental
  • utilitarian

fair

  • Junoesque
  • OK
  • abluted
  • about
  • aboveboard
  • absolute
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • adequate
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • all but
  • all right
  • all-out
  • alluring
  • almost
  • alright
  • antiseptic
  • appealing
  • applicable
  • appreciably
  • appropriate
  • apt
  • argent
  • arrant
  • arresting
  • as good as
  • ash-blond
  • ash-blonde
  • ashen
  • ashy
  • assured
  • attractive
  • auction
  • auspicious
  • authentic
  • average
  • balanced
  • balmy
  • bazaar
  • beamish
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • benevolent
  • blameless
  • blanched
  • blank
  • bleached
  • blond
  • blonde
  • blondish
  • blooming
  • bodacious
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • borderline
  • bright
  • bullish
  • by and large
  • calm
  • candid
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • celebration
  • centennial
  • chalky
  • charming
  • chaste
  • cheering
  • chiefly
  • chocolate-box
  • civil
  • clarion
  • classic
  • clean
  • cleanly
  • cleansed
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • colorless
  • comely
  • comforting
  • common
  • commonplace
  • competent
  • complete
  • condign
  • confident
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consummate
  • correct
  • courteous
  • crashing
  • creamy
  • cunning
  • cute
  • dainty
  • damn
  • damned
  • dead
  • deadly
  • decent
  • decisive
  • definite
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demonstration
  • deserved
  • desirable
  • dishy
  • disinterested
  • dispassionate
  • display
  • dollish
  • doubtless
  • downright
  • dreadful
  • drop-dead
  • dry
  • due
  • elegant
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • endless
  • engaging
  • equal
  • equitable
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • eternal
  • ethical
  • ethically
  • eupeptic
  • even-handed
  • evenhanded
  • exhibit
  • exhibition
  • expo
  • exposition
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravaganza
  • extreme
  • eye-catching
  • faded
  • fair-haired
  • fair-skinned
  • fairish
  • fairly
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • feckly
  • festival
  • fetching
  • fete
  • fine
  • fit
  • fitting
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flawless
  • flaxen
  • flaxen-haired
  • forthright
  • foxy
  • frank
  • frightful
  • gala
  • generous
  • gentle
  • genuine
  • germfree
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • gold
  • golden
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • habitual
  • halcyon
  • handsome
  • heartening
  • high-mindedly
  • honest
  • honorable
  • honorably
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hot
  • huge
  • hunky
  • hygienic
  • immaculate
  • impartial
  • indifferent
  • intermediate
  • inveterate
  • irreproachable
  • just
  • just about
  • justified
  • kind of
  • knockout
  • largely
  • law-abiding
  • lawful
  • legal
  • legally
  • legitimate
  • light
  • likely
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luscious
  • magnificent
  • main
  • mainly
  • market
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • medium
  • meet
  • merited
  • middling
  • mild
  • milky
  • minimal
  • moderate
  • modest
  • moral
  • morally
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearly
  • neutral
  • next to
  • nice
  • nigh
  • nobly
  • nonpartisan
  • not bad
  • nubile
  • objective
  • observance
  • occasion
  • ocherous
  • ochreous
  • offering
  • okay
  • on the level
  • on the up and up
  • open
  • optimistic
  • ordinary
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • pageant
  • pale
  • pale-faced
  • paled
  • palish
  • pallid
  • partially
  • partly
  • passable
  • pasty
  • peaceful
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • pearly
  • perfect
  • performance
  • perpetual
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • plumb
  • positive
  • practically
  • praiseworthy
  • prepossessing
  • presentable
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • pretty
  • pretty good
  • pretty much
  • prettyish
  • principled
  • pristine
  • production
  • profound
  • promising
  • proper
  • propitious
  • pulchritudinous
  • pure
  • purified
  • radiant
  • rainless
  • rank
  • rational
  • ravishing
  • real
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • regular
  • requisite
  • respectable
  • resplendent
  • rhadamanthine
  • right
  • righteous
  • rightful
  • rose-colored
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • sale
  • sallow
  • sallowish
  • sandy
  • sanitary
  • satisfactory
  • scrubbed
  • scrupulous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • serene
  • sexy
  • sheer
  • shiny
  • show
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • silvery
  • simple
  • sincere
  • slick
  • smiling
  • snazzy
  • snowy
  • so-so
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • soothing
  • sparkling
  • spectacle
  • spic-and-span
  • spick-and-span
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • spotless
  • square
  • squeaky-clean
  • stainless
  • stark
  • statuesque
  • sterile
  • stone
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightforward
  • straw
  • strawberry blond
  • strawberry blonde
  • strict
  • striking
  • stringent
  • studly
  • stunning
  • sublime
  • sufficient
  • sufficing
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • superb
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • sure
  • surpassing
  • taintless
  • taking
  • tawny
  • telegenic
  • temperate
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • tolerable
  • toothsome
  • total
  • tow-haired
  • tow-headed
  • towheaded
  • tranquil
  • true
  • trustworthy
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unbiased
  • unblemished
  • unclouded
  • uncolored
  • uncompromising
  • unconditional
  • uncorrupted
  • undarkened
  • undefiled
  • undying
  • unexceptional
  • unhesitating
  • unimpeachable
  • unmitigated
  • unpolluted
  • unprejudiced
  • unqualified
  • unremitting
  • unrestricted
  • unsoiled
  • unstained
  • unsullied
  • untainted
  • unthreatening
  • up to standard
  • upbeat
  • upright
  • usual
  • utter
  • veritable
  • very
  • virtually
  • virtuous
  • wan
  • warranted
  • washed
  • well-favored
  • well-nigh
  • white
  • whitened
  • whitish
  • wholesome
  • within an inch of
  • zingy

kibbled

  • butchered
  • carved
  • chipped
  • chopped
  • coarse
  • coarse-grained
  • cracked
  • diced
  • dissected
  • earthy
  • grained
  • grainy
  • granular
  • granulated
  • grated
  • gravelly
  • gritty
  • ground
  • hashed
  • lumpy
  • mashed
  • mealy
  • minced
  • pebbly
  • pureed
  • rocky
  • sandy
  • sliced
  • stoney
  • stony
  • unfiltered
  • unrefined

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